Staff profile
Ms Linda Wannan
FBEL Academic Language & Learning Team, Lecturer
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 2710
- E: l.wannan-edgar@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
B.Sc (Maths) (University of Auckland, NZ), B.Comm (Economics) (University of Auckland, NZ), Grad. Dip Education – Secondary (University of Melbourne, Australia), M.Business (International Trade) (Victoria University, Australia)
Area of study
Business
Brief profile
Linda Wannan, formerly Wannan-Edgar, is a Lecturer in Academic Language and Learning Skills for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law. Linda has over 25 years' senior advisory and management experience in a wide range of industries: manufacturing, airline, logistics, health computing and economic consulting, predominantly with international firms based in New Zealand. While in those industries she taught tertiary level Economics and Business Mathematics.
Since moving to Melbourne she has focussed on teaching Mathematics and Economics. Prior to joining the Faculty she was a sessional lecturer and tutor within the School of Economics and Finance at La Trobe University Melbourne campus. Linda has a strong interest in raising numeracy as well as literacy standards of students.
Her current research involves the economics of the Australian International Education industry, post-enrolment numeracy assessment, intervention strategies for at-risk students, embedding numeracy, literacy and information skills within curricula, and the effect of ethnic diaspora networks on facilitating international trade.
Teaching units
Bridgeworks Numeracy Skills and Statistics
'Maths & Graphs for ECO2MIT' workshops for second year microeconomics students
Teaching material development such as videos for students : example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9XMLzbQiH8
Consulting
Please email to request an appointment
Resume
Research projects
"Numeracy Toolkit: Improving numeracy skills for students with below standard proficiency in quantitative areas", with Craig Taylor, funded by La Trobe University, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Teaching and Learning Grant Fund number 2, awarded March 2011
